Scott Vickaryous

A handsome, brown-haired Canadian actor, Scott Vickaryous has racked up several television credits, with featured parts in TV-movies and regular series roles since his wise move west to production fri...
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Was featured in an episode of Showtime's sci-fi anthology series "The Outer Limits"

Had a bit role as a diver in the USA Network biopic "Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story"

Featured as one of the high school athletes in the well-made "Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge" (ABC), a fact-based TV-movie about the rape of a mentally challenged girl in an affluent New Jersey suburban community

Originally cast in pilot for The WB's family drama "Safe Harbor"; replaced before show aired

Starred as a cancer stricken teenager in the NBC TV-movie "A Champion's Fight: A Moment of Truth Movie"

Raised in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

Appeared in "Race Against Fear: A Moment of Truth Movie" (NBC)

Had a regular role on the ocean liner-set UPN teen series "Breaker High", playing Max Ballard, the bad boy son of the captain of the titular school

Moved to Vancouver to pursue an acting career

Following high school, worked as a model in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (date approximate)

Featured in the Showtime children's movie "The Right Connections"

Summary

A handsome, brown-haired Canadian actor, Scott Vickaryous has racked up several television credits, with featured parts in TV-movies and regular series roles since his wise move west to production friendly Vancouver. Born in British Columbia and raised in Alberta, he moved to Toronto after high school where he worked as a model. After relocating to Vancouver, Vickaryous landed a bit part as a diver in the USA biopic "Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story" and was featured in the Showtime original children's film "The Right Connections" (both 1997), with Melissa Joan Hart, before landing his debut series regular role on "Breaker High". Set on a luxury ocean liner that served as a traveling boarding school for several hundred students, this 1997 UPN teen drama won Vickaryous a loyal audience, but suffered an early demise. The Vancouver-based production certainly had a great deal of young fans, and lived on successfully in reruns on Canada's YTV. Vickaryous emerged as a particular favorite among viewers for his portrayal of bad boy Max Ballard, a surfer with attitude, reigned in somewhat by the presence of his father, the ship's captain. He followed up with two of NBC's dramatic 1998 "Moment of Truth" movies, taking a supporting role in "Race Against Fear" with Ariana Richards as a high school athlete raped by her coach, and starring in "A Champion's Fight" as a teenaged sports hero stricken with terminal cancer. In 1999, he was featured in ABC's fact-based TV-movie "Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge", playing Paul Archer, one of a group of popular and out of control athletes accused of raping a mentally challenged teenaged girl. As Paul, one of the least brutal of the boys, and the one that the young victim had a crush on, Vickaryous capably evinced the character's conflict and cowardice in a nuanced performance, given very little expository dialogue. Later that year, Vickaryous was cast in the pilot of the series "Safe Harbor", playing the son of a widowed Florida sheriff (Gregory Harrison). The actor was replaced in the role before the show debuted on The WB. He began a recurring role on the Fox comedy/drama "Get Real" later that season.